How to set photoshop settings for quick work. Cleaning the History Palette in Photoshop Transferring the Cache folder in Photoshop

Whatever your computer, Photoshop, is such a monster, which will devour all its resources. And sooner or later everyone will have to encounter it.

Recently, I encountered such a problem as a shortage of memory while saving an animation card for Web in Photoshop.
For this reason I had to redo the collage three times.
I do not know what the reason, but I had to sweat over one collage ...
The search for me was brought to the Internet.
The first reason turned out to be in the folder of the TEMP

this folder is in the system and it must be cleaned from recorded operations in Photoshop

(you can remove everything you can delete- By the way, the operational memory of the computer is also cleared).

Remember:
The more globally you perform manipulations with one picture (photo). The greater memory is needed to store all these operations.

Remember:
File Pogging of RAM Photoshop takes a resource with hard logic disks.

Remember:

Causes of "glitches":

1.Photoshop buggy if Adobe Photoshop CS broken.
2. For work with Adobe Photoshop CS you need at least 1 GB. RAM (Ideal 2 GB.)
3. For the fact that Photoshop would not buggy, it is necessary to close all unnecessary programs.
4. Look look at the task manager and disconnect unnecessary.
5. Check the properties of photoshop and see the system requirements of your computer.

Photoshop can be facilitated by removing a bunch of unnecessary and hardly you can hardly:
Textures, brushes, colors samples, action, styles, gradients, etc.
For this, it is also desirable to be able to create a set of brushes, gradients or action, which you need to create a specific occurrence.

In the Info palette, enable additional panel display settings.

and analyze your work.

Open Photoshop, call the information window in Photoshop.

It will be like this:

information about your photoshop:

Useful Tip: Disc Selection:

To work with graphics, highlight a separate empty disk for 20 gigs for a temporary photoshop file.

and set these PHOTO-GRAPH settings as indicated:
The disk must be absolutely empty.

Editing-Remove from memory and select the type of item or buffer that we need to clean.

If the type of element or buffer is cleaned, it will be darkened.
Command "Delete from Memory" Finally removes operation from memory and you will not be able to cancel the already made effects on the layer. Unable to remove from memory.
Use the "Remove from Memory" command when the amount of information in memory is large

or you are sure that you will not cancel the old teams as well as when it significantly affects the productivity of photoshop.

If you "slows down" Photoshop, and you missing RAM To solve their tasks,

You will also help such advice. We go to photoshop and open it.

Here you need to set the following parameters:

Memory usage .
History & Cache. .
Scratch Disks. .
GPU Settings .

In the first column, you can install the total available RAM to which the program will refer or in a numerical format, or in% of the ratio of all memory.

Here it is necessary to put the level of steps of history (their number), the level of the cache and its size.

Work disks can be both systemic and auxiliary.

And finally, you can put a tick opposite the item GPU Settings .

Thus, we will include the possibility of hardware acceleration of your graphics processor.

If you still have the Adobe Photoshop program works not as you expected

that you can try to clear the RAM from unnecessary components.
To do this, go to the menu

Here you will see 4 parameters:

Previous actions, clipboard, history, all actions:

Click on them and remove from memory alternately in each item.

So you have the opportunity clear the history

from RAM, or clipboard, etc.

If you close the image or execute the command File> Revert.(File\u003e Return back), the list of all states of this image will be removed from the palette. In order to save events when restoring the image, instead of using the team Revert.(Return back) Put the palette into nonlinear mode, click on the previous state or thumbnail of the first picture, located at the top of the palette (more about the pictures is described in the section "Usage of images").

To clean the palette History.(History) For all images open in Photoshop and free up, select the command, select Edit.> Purge.> Histories.(Edit\u003e Clear\u003e Stories). If you want to clear the palette only for the current document, from the palette menu, select the command Clear History.(Clear the history). Team Purge.(Clear) Cancel it is impossiblea. Clear History.(Clear the history) - can.

The maximum number of stored states depends on various factors: the size of the image, the nature of the operations produced above the image, and the current amount of available memory. For each open image, your own list of states is saved.

Operations on the status list elements

If the palette is in linear mode (option ALLOW NON-LINEAR HISTORY(Allow the nonlinearity of events) disabled), the elements of the states below that you click will become dull. If you delete the selected state or continue editing from it, all the elements that have become dull will be deleted. If you change my mind, immediately execute the command Undo(Cancel). If the palette is in nonlinear mode, you can restore the document until the last stage of editing, simply by clicking on the lower element.

Return to one of the previous states

To return to one of the previous states on the palette History.(History) Click on the appropriate element (Fig. 8.3, 8.4).

Fig. 8.3. Switch to the previous state in linear mode

Fig. 8.4. Transition to the previous state in nonlinear mode

You can also select commands from the palette menu. Step Forward(Go to the next state) or Step Backward(Go to the previous state) or click "Hot" command keys shown in Table. 8.1. Finally, you can move the slider located on the left to the palette, to the desired state.

Table 8.1. "Hot" keys for the History palette


	Operation	Keyboard shortcut
	Go to the next state	Ctrl + SHIFT + Z
	Go to the previous state

Duplication of status

Turn on the option ALLOW NON-LINEAR History.(Allow the nonlinearity of events).
Press the key Alt. And click on any item. Its copy will be located at the very bottom of the state list, that is, it will be the most recent state.

If option is enabled ALLOW NON-LINEAR HISTORY(Allow the nonlinearity of events) and you remove the status list item, it will be removed only. If you delete the list item when the option is disabled, all subsequent elements will be deleted with it. To restore them, you can use the team Edit. > Undo (Edit>Cancel).

Removal of status

Drag the name of the status you want to delete, on the button with the image of the basket DELETE CURRENT STATE.(current status) located on the palette History.(History).

Continue clicking on this button by pressing the key. Alt.To delete several consecutive events preceding the current event.

When working in Photoshop, there is a plate "The boot disk is filled .." or "not enough memory ..." What to do?

This question received from the participants of our site. I did not have such a problem, but I decided to figure it out. What could be the reason for this and how to get rid of it? I describe the way I understand it, perhaps in something I will be and not completely right.

Selection of RAM for Photoshop

RAM - Operational storage device. Simply put, the prompt memory of the computer or other device (RAM). It serves to bring data into temporary memory. When rebooting the computer, the contents of the RAM is not saved.

Photoshop displays volume available RAM and ideal memory range necessary for its work (share of the total available memory in percent).
Value "Busy under Photoshop" It is necessary to change it by default, but if you wish it, it can be changed by about 75%
It can be found: Editing-Installation-performance for CS5

Editing-Installation and Memory and Cash Memory for CS2

The main worker disc there must be the fastest hard drive; Make sure that it has a lot of free defragmented space.
To turn on Virtual memory (Podchock file), check the box near that disk on which there is a free space.
Click "OK"

To change the changes to restart Photoshop

PS: Virtual memory will be used only when there is not enough memory on the main work disk for further work in Photoshop, when leaving Photoshop, it will finish its work, i.e. You can safely use the paging file, no saving on the disk will be made.

Free Memory

Team "Delete from memory"allows you to free up the memory used: the "Cancel" command, the "History" palette and the exchange buffer.

Select Editing - Remove from memory And select the type of item or buffer to be cleaned. If the type of element or buffer is already cleaned, it will be darkened.

Most photos for processing photos are very demanding on computer resources, and our favorite Photoshop is just a leader in "voraciousness".

Even if you do not work with huge TIFF files and do not make difficult processing with dozens of layers, Photoshop still can be forced to work faster.

We have compiled a list of simple and efficient ways to speed up the work of Photoshop.

1. Memory setting

As you understand, the more memory allocated for Photoshop, the faster the program works.

In memory settings, an accessible memory program is specified, that is, not the entire amount of memory available, and free memory that can be highlighted specifically for photoshop.

By default, Photoshop uses 70% of the available memory.

For most users of the 32-bit version of photoshop 70% enough for normal operation. If you need more, try adding 5% and follow the efficiency indicator (read it just below). For a 32-bit version, the use of 100% of the available memory may cause problems.

To change the allocated memory, go to (Windows) Edit\u003e Preferences\u003e Performance or (Mac OS) Menu Photoshop\u003e Preferences\u003e Performance.

If possible, it is worth using a 64-bit version of photoshop, which allows you to allocate up to 100% of memory for your work.

2. Podchock file

When the program works with a large number of information and this information is not placed in RAM, the program begins to record the data in the "paging file" on the hard disk. That is, the file executes the role of RAM.

The problem of the paging file is that the data record on the hard disk is slower than in RAM. In addition, your operating system also stores its data into the paging file, and this additionally loads the hard disk by the work.

The optimal option is to use a separate physical disk for the paging file. The ideal option is to use SSD discs that are at times faster than their HDD analogs. But even the use of ordinary HDD will already unload the main disk, which will be occupied only by the operation of the OS.

The hard disk selection for the paging file is located in the same menu (Windows) Edit\u003e Preferences\u003e Performance or (Mac OS) Menu of Photoshop\u003e Preferences\u003e Performance.

3. History and cache settings

This settings panel is located in the menu (Windows) Edit\u003e Preferences\u003e Performance or (Mac OS) Menu of Photoshop\u003e Preferences\u003e Performance.

Cache Levels.

Photoshop uses cache to quickly display the image.

If you work with small files, the size of 1280 × 1024 points and a large number of layers (50 and more), set the cache value to 2.
If you work with big files, 10 megapixel size and more, set a value greater than 4.

A larger value of the cache levels speeds up the viewing process.

Cache Tile Size - is responsible for the amount of data that Photoshop processes at a time. Large values \u200b\u200baccelerate the overall operations on the image, for example, an increase in sharpness. Less values \u200b\u200bwork faster when you change small sections of the image, such as working with a brush.

History States.

Each operation saved in history and increases the "paging file". Accordingly, the smaller the data you will be stored in history, the less place will take photoshop.

If you always work in copies of your layer, it is enough to leave ten recent in history.

GPU Settings

Photoshop CS4 and CS5 use the capabilities of your video card to speed up the image display. In order for photoshop to access the video card resources, it must support the OpenGL standard and have a minimum of 128 megabytes of memory.

To access the resources of your video card, simply check the check box. And to maximize the use of features, we advise you to update the driver of your video card.

After setting the basic parameters of the work, we can go to the general advice on optimizing Photoshop.

4. Follow the performance indicator

The efficiency indicator will show you when Photoshop exhausted the available memory and starts to save the data into the paging file.

To display the indicator, press the arrow under your image and select Efficiency.

The values \u200b\u200bbelow 90-95% suggest that Photoshop uses the paging file and, accordingly, it slows down the system, in such a way that you need to highlight more memory in the photoshop settings or add RAM to your computer.

5. Close the unused windows

PHOTOSHOP CS4 and CS5 windows with documents use more memory than in previous versions. A large number of open documents slowly slows down and can lead to a message about a lack of memory.

Mac OS There is an Application Frame feature (Window\u003e Application Frame), it is disabled by default. If you decide to use it, remember it also loads memory.

6. Reduce the number of patterns and brushes for Photoshop

Brushes for photoshop, patterns and styles of layers noticeably load the system. Moreover, each of them loads on a little bit, and as a result, the system is clogged with junk, which is rarely used.

To view Pictures in Photoshop, go to the Edit\u003e Preset Manager menu and choose PRESET Type\u003e Patterns (Patterns) or Brushes (Brushes).

7. Disconnect the previews of the layers and channels

In layers, channels and paths, photoshop shows small previews of the content. Accordingly, the more layers, the more memory goes to their content.

To reduce or disable the previews, go to Panel Options and disconnect the preview.

8. Work with images with color depth 8 bits

Photoshop can work with 8-, 16- and 32-bit images. However, as practice shows, for tasks that are not associated with professional color correction and printing, it is enough to work with 8-bit images.

You can translate the file to 8 bit through the Image\u003e Mode\u003e 8 Bits / Channel menu. This will immediately reduce the file size, and accordingly, the load on the computer is twice.

9. Disconnect the previews for fonts

When you choose the font in Photoshop, you immediately see how this font will look. If you do not use this, this function can be turned off.

(Win) EDIT menu\u003e Preferences\u003e Type (Windows) or (Mac OS) Menu Photoshop\u003e Preferences\u003e Type and remove the daw from the "Font Preview Size" item.

10. Reduce the file size

If you make a file for the Internet and you do not need large sizes, you can safely reduce your files up to 3000 pixels along the long side and work on them further.

You can reduce the photo through the Image\u003e Image Size menu.

11. Reset temporary data

History panel and clipboard store a lot of data. To reset data, go to the Edit\u003e Purge menu and select Undo, Clipboard, Histories, or All. Accordingly, data will be reset the abolition of actions, clipboard, history or all at once.

Be careful, this command cannot be canceled.

12. Fashionable work with layers

The layers are the foundation of work in Photoshop, but they increase the size of the file and the amount of memory will be raised. If you have made all the necessary works, combine the layers. To do this, highlight the desired layers, right-click them and select Merge Layers.

To combine all available layers, go to the Layer\u003e Flatten Image menu.

Creating Smart Objects will save you a disk space and increase the speed of work. Select a layer right-click and select Convert to Smart Object.

12 + 1. Do not export the image to the clipboard

The fact is that when copying data to the PhotoShop CS4 clipboard copies the data in the PICT format, and Photoshop CS5 in TIFF format. Imagine what data these are volumes and loss of performance. Copy will work within the program, that is, the image will not be copied beyond the program.

If you do not copy the data outside the program, disconnect this feature: Menu (Windows) Edit\u003e Preferences\u003e General or (Mac OS) Photoshop\u003e Preference\u003e General -\u003e Disconnect Export Clipboard.

We hope these tips will help you optimize your work in Photoshop.